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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1917 



119; and may God gri-ant that when this 

 comes before 3'ou in print there will be a 

 still better state of affairs. If we here in 

 the North have not already entirely stopped 

 the drinking of " Kentucky wliisky," we are 

 well on the way to it. 



TETMPERANCE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. 



First we have the following from one of 

 our readers in Vancouver, B. C. : 



Dear Sir: — I am enclosing herewith a clipping 

 from a local paper announcing the advent of pro- 

 hibition into this far-away province. It might be 

 interesting to you to know that Canada is now dry, 

 in one continuous stretch, from the Pacific Ocean 

 to the eastern borders of Ontario. 



Welfred "W. Smith. 



Vancouver. B. C, Oct. 1, 1917.- 



Accompanying the above was a full page 

 from the Vancouver World, from which we 

 clip the foUoAving: 



B C PROHIBITION ACT BECOMES EFFEC- 

 TIVE MONDAY 



ABOLITION OF THE BAR A RESULT OF A LONG FIGHT. 



On Monday next, October 1, the bar will disap- 

 pear from British Columbia, by the will of the 

 people of the province. 



T\\() MILLION BU-SHELS OF GRAIN ARE SAVED. 



Billy Sunday visited the province and addressed 

 probably two of the largest meetings ever held in 

 British Columbia, at Victoria and Vancouver. At 

 the Vancouver meeting over 11,000 people filled the 

 arena. 



We clip the following from the Florida 

 Grower : 



ONLY TWELVE WET VOTES. 



At the special election held on the 18th to deter- 

 mine whether the new county of Flagler should go 

 " wet " or " dry " the " di-ys " carried the election 

 by an overwhelming majority, there being but twelve 

 votes for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the en- 

 tire county. 



The following is clipped from the Ameri- 

 can Issue: 



FLORIDA VOTERS TO VOTE ON STATE-WIDE 

 PROHIBITION; 



BOTH HOUSES OP LEGISLATURE PASS BILL SUBMIT- 

 TING PROHIBITION LAW AT ELECTION TO BE 

 HELD IN 1918. 

 MAJOF.ITY OF 20,000 EXPECTED BY DRYS ; STATE 

 SENATE TAKES ACTION TO CUT DOWN IMPOR- 

 TATION OF LIQUOR. 



Florida, without doubt, will join the list of state- 

 wide dry states as the result of a referendum vote 

 of the people to be taken in November, 1918. This 

 vote w as taken in the Legislature on April 11. The 

 Senate vote was 29 to 3, and the House vote 62 

 to 4. 



We clip the following from the Florida 

 Times-Union: 



Key West is now bone dry. 



articles she has furnished to different peri- 

 odicals. 



Yes, be patriotic; plant your front lawn in po- 

 tatoes that the brewers may have the grain. Raise 

 y our flag over the " Land of the . Brewer and the 

 Home of his Slave." God give us a stainless flag. 



EAT CARBAGE ; GRAIN IS NEEDED FOR BEER. 



The Ohio Defense Council is issuing daily bulle- 

 tins giving all sorts of advice about what to eat and 

 what not to eat — mostly about what not to eat. 



The advice about what one should eat is mostly 

 that the people should subsist on bread crumbs, 

 garbage, bon mots, and luxuries left over by the 

 cats in the back yard. 



They want us to eat bread crumbs so that the 

 fat brewers can have the grain. 



The real meaning of this literary Junk boiled to 

 the hone is that Americans should eat this cast-off 

 junk in order that the obese and greasy German 

 brfewery overlords may have the grain to make beer 

 with. 



They call this sort of thing "patriotism." That 

 is, the Germans call it patriotism. Americans who 

 don't swear, mostly call it jackassery. 



LET THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN SCRAPE AND 



SAVE IN ORDER THAT THE BREWERS MAY 



HAVE THE GRAIN TO MAKE BEER FOR 



THE " MEN POLKS." 



Our good friend Minnie J. Ellis is still 

 alive and on the war-path, as one might 

 readily suppose. Below are some clippings 

 which she sends. I think they are from some 



PROHIBITION — ONE OP THE SAD (?) RESULTS 

 PROM IT. 



The following, which we clip from the 

 Florida Grower, probably comes from our 

 friend Russell Kay, who is presiding wliile 

 the regular editor, Mr. Wright, is off on a 

 vacation. What do you think of it? 



And now the booze artists have another argument 

 against prohibition. It is pointed out that bad 

 roads are a direct result of prohibition. A county 

 engineer states that since the bone-dry law went 

 into effect in his territory he had so few convicts at 

 his command that it was impossible to keep the high- 

 ways in his district in good condition. Now the 

 question arises, Which is of most value to a com- 

 munity ; convicts or good roads ? It occurs to us 

 that it is possible to enjoy the advantages of good 

 roads without the necessity of employing convict 

 labor. This argument against prohibition is as 

 logical as if it bore the stamp " Made in Germany." 



CIGARETTES AND " EFFICIENCY/' BY ELBERT 

 ■HUBBARD. 

 " As a close observer and employer of labor for 

 over twenty - five years, I give j'ou this : Never 

 advance the pay of a cigarette-smoker ; never pro- 

 mote him; never trust him to carry a roll to Garcia, 

 unless you do not care for Garcia and are willing 

 to lose the roll. Cigarette-smoking begins with an 

 effort to be smart. It soon becomes a pleasure, a 

 satisfaction, and serves to bridge over a moment of 

 nervousness or embarrassment. Next it becomes a 

 necessity of life, a fixed habit. This last stage 

 soon evolves into a third condition, a stage of fever 

 and unrestful, wandering mind, accompanied by 

 loss of moral and mental control." 



We clip the above from a tract sent us by 

 Irving Keek, Bowling Green, Fla. By the 

 way, somebody suggests that not only our 

 United States but the nations of the earth 

 are ruling intoxicants out of close range 

 of the military camps while nothing is said 

 or done about cigarettes. Just recently a 

 lady asked the editor of one of our daily 

 pajDers what she should put into a box to 

 send to the soldiers. Among other things 

 the editor replied something like thip: 



